New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-05-10
4 PAIN1ERS BOYHOOD.
Erom Tne London Gtobe.

FROM INC L"'"Vt
to the successful students Of the Sheffield school OF
Art and took advantage Of the occasion &c narIate
several eycntful episodes OF ms nc ihty oS cHie
ago his parents brought him from Jersey 10 south,
amtton nd thence London. As they Approached
the nl-trO oils the top OF macoach, he remenl-
which was NJ. to him, and he asked his mother what
IL was. My boy" she said, those are the lights
~ Tondonn-ihe london in which he was to sink or
S,ylin Two DAYS later he was taken by his mother
to Sir Martin Archer Shce, then president OF inc
Royal Academy who received them Wth Vdd d Hs
clever practical woman iand here ne should Ike TO
say that he owed everything to ms moiher iTt mGc
VISIT She told him how their neishbors ana lriehds
would not trust to the opinion OF friends, and so she
had come 70 him TO ascertain from the best source
him no a an artist The first remark which sir
Martin Shce made he should never forget lie sara:
"Malam you had better bring the boy up to be a
hopes looked very black indeed Nothing daunIea
his mother replied But surely, Sir Martin you VIII
look at the boys drawings before you decide" There,
uron a PORTFOLIO was brought up from the hall and
tho drawings some careful attention the president
turned TO him. placed his hand ul0n his head ana
looked him steadastly in the face, saying: "lOn
did all those drawings yourself, my little man y
He was too frightened TO answer, but the president
Inv. to his mother he said cmphaticaily: MADAM, Il
Is your duty 70 bring this boy up TO the PROCESSION; oil,
Following this advice he was Mt once placed WIN
Mr. sass in bloomsbury, but Mr. Saas was uniortun-
atey ILL., and he must say he got lttc or 10 mSrGc
ton from him. But lac was pId'c AMONG No"ls.n ,,
ions who were much older than himself, some very
clever dTaughtSmcn among the nuHlIcf, anu nc IN
provrd by looking at their work and obtaining their
criticism upon his own work lie coud not 700
strongly insist upon the advantage students might be
TO one another. At Mr. Sass he worried hard, very
hard for young boy and made great proS1reSS;
From that school he went into the Royal Academy
as a probationer, and after passing qualifying ex.
amlna ion he became student. As the youngest
student he remembered one duty in connection with
those early days He told of by the other stu
dents daily to obtain their lunchcons for them lie
hal TO collect from forty to fifty pence from his COM
panions, and 90 with that hoard to neghbOrlng
10 business even In these days. for he got commits
sion upon the transaction. He always got bun
for himself gratis and the good-naured' baker gave
him his best bun-a bath bun value twopence. In
the very first year of his studentshp he entered Tor
n nrye n medal given for the best drawing in the
antique and failed by one vote, 30 that he could
thoroughly sympathize with those students who
he again tried and to his JOY and astonlShmsnt he
won n first OF three prizes. Since then he had trlcd
for many medals and he hoped they would not think
il mmodcst in him TO say that he had always won
them, because it Il simple TACT